Well, I think our healthy skepticism can sometimes cause us to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Even the paranoid have enemies, you know.
If, indeed, the prediction of 9 / 11 was made beforehand (how do I know?) then perhaps the other observations are correct, too.
Alex is absolutely correct in one observation: The threat of terrorism is a great circumstance to enhance the power or wealth of others.
Am I being far too cynical? I do not think so, the extremely driven megalomaniacs that do exist (to the great detriment of humanity) anyway, they can and will excuse any harm to others as just another cost of them rising to their acheiving their goals.
The reason this is so implausible to the rest or most of the rest of us, is we ourselves could never do what these people do routinely to futher their goals, just as we would never dream of stealing another’s car or shoplifting, so it is hard to understand why others perform these misdeeds.
So, anyway, I do nor summarily dismiss Alex’s basic position, that there are quite possibly rogue elements within various governments that will further the goals of the terrorists in order to feather their own nests or further their own goals.
Dan who occasionally posts something thoughtful, just to throw off his detractors
